Philip J. Pizzo

Philip J. Pizzo (1950-) was a Catholic priest from Richmond Hill, Brooklyn, New York City who was infamous for a 31 January 2017 Facebook post that urged opponents of Donald Trump to kill themselves.

Biography
Philip J. Pizzo was born in New York City, New York in 1950 to a family of Italian Catholics, and he became the reverend of the St. Benedict Joseph Labre Roman Catholic Church in Richmond Hill. Pizzo's parishioners were mostly immigrants from Latin America and the Caribbean, but he was known for having far-right views, as he claimed that Democratic president Barack Obama was "not his president" and that Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton had an "ugly face". On 31 January 2017, he hit the local news when he posted a meme urging Donald Trump critics to kill themselves in a sarcastic "Jump for Trump" campaign, and many people felt that his joke was offensive and that it encouraged suicide. Pizzo apologized, although he said that the meme was funny.